dodder

The weed, known as field dodder or Cuscuta japonica, whose origin has been traced to North America, is a parasitic plant meaning that it draws nutrients from host plants and trees suffocating them, sometimes to death."It is becoming a nightmare particularly in western Kenya, the Rift Valley and in parts of the Central region," said Dr Eston Mutitu, a Senior Entomologist and Chief Research Scientist at the Kenya Forest Research Institute (Kefri).

The snaps were taken by photographer Mark Caffrey on the banks of the River Dodder in South Dublin.

Matthew Dodder, a self-described "bird guy" with four decades of birding experience who leads classes in Palo Alto, California, told The Washington Post that the key giveaway to tell whether birds are drunk is their goofy behavior.

The material is arranged in chapters on the Liffey, the Poddle course of a thousand years ago, the Abbey Stream, the city water supply and the Limerick Watercourse, the Tenter Water and Hangman's Stream, The Stein River, Dodder Park Millraces, the Elm Park Stream and the Trimleston Stream, the Owendoher River and Whitechurch Stream, the Tolka River tributaries, The Santry River, the Howth streams, and the named wells of Dublin.

This study aimed to determine the most appropriate control methods for smoothseed alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta approximata Bab.), infesting alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) in Van, Turkey.

A dodder seedling, basically a bare stem, finds that first neighbor by writhing and groping (in slow plant time) toward attractive plant odors.

Once a dodder plant makes contact with a host, it quickly coils repeatedly around the stem, and through the use of numerous haustoria, penetrates the plant.

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Because dodder maintains direct associations with host vascular tissue and can parasitize multiple plants simultaneously (Kelly and Homing, 1999), plant pathologists have long utilized it as a vector for viruses (Bennett, 1940).

AN investigation is under way after 500 dead fish were discovered in the River Dodder in Dublin.

Found in all 48 contiguous states and Hawaii, dodder is a parasitic plant with yellow or reddish filaments that wrap themselves around flowers such as salvia, petunias, mums and geraniums, and garden plants including potatoes, onions and blueberries.